I admire curling tremendously and wish I could watch more. While I was generally boycotting watching these Olympics, I was DVRing the curling and watching it. I attended curling events in 2002 in Salt Lake City, where I lived at the time. It is very much a sport, more cerebral, and time to consider options compared to other winter sports which are more 'twitch' oriented. One of the things I've found interesting in the most recent Olympics was how buff the athletes on the top male teams had become. They appear younger and stronger, no longer are the top players necessarily in their 40s or 50s. These buff boys in their 20s and early 30s can brush the ice with more intensity which can lengthen the slide of a stone substantially more than their older and less fit competitors. It is the future.
Paul On Feb 22, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Dr. Bob Wildblood wrote: > Just to express a different opinion, I believe that if one actually learned > about the sport of curling and the skill that it takes to make the nuanced > motions to guide that stone to score or block, they would understand how much > of a sport it is. If you want to learn a bit about the things that go into > being a participant in the sport, go to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_curling for a glossary of terms. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Green <[email protected]> > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:58:14 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Re: [tips] Condolances > > >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 8:42 PM, "Lilienfeld, Scott O" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And what's especially humiliating is that you Canadians also beat out us >> Americans in curling, which isn't even a sport. > > Yeah, kind of like NASCAR, eh? :-) > > Chris > ....... > Christopher D Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 > > [email protected] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13185.d5346723901d967ccc167929e2ee94ad&n=T&l=tips&o=34510 > or send a blank email to > leave-34510-13185.d5346723901d967ccc167929e2ee9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=34517 > or send a blank email to > leave-34517-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34519 or send a blank email to leave-34519-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
